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i TTTK OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JULY P, 1008, Tin; Omaha Daily BEt FOLNDKD BT TOWARD ROBirWATER. VICTOR H08E WATER. EDITOR. Entered st Omaha postofflce second class matter. TERMS OF BUFSCR1PTION: I'ally R (without Sunday), one year. .MM Ialljr Hee and Sunday. one year DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Dally Pee (Including- Sunday), per week..lRo Dally He (without Hundayi, per week..lOc Evening ne (without Sunday). pr k c Kverjlng Bee (with Sunday), pr week.,..10o Sunday Bee, one year Saturday Bee, one year 1 w Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha rity Hall Building. Council Bluffs 15 Bcott Street. Chicago- IMS Marquette Building. New York-Rooms U01-110J. No. S4 Wert Thirty-third Street. . Washington-; Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Pee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company, pnly 2-cent stamps received In payment of mail accounts. I'eraonal rhecka. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION: 6tste of Nebraska. Douglaa County, ss : George h. Tcschuck, treaaurer of The 'pen Publishing company, being duly aworn, eny that Die actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of June. 190. was as follows: 1 33,830 0 35,740 S 36,030 4 35,800 6 38,740 6 35,830 7 35,900 8 35,950 I , 35,910 10 35,970 11 36,350 13 36,030 13 35,890 14 36,050 15 36,080 XS 38,490 H 38,490 17 35,930 18 39,110 U 36,460 90 35,890 gi ....35,750 83 36,480 83 36,099 84 38,340 85 36,600 96 36,070 88 35,830 89 36,500 30 36,330 Totals 1,089,090 Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,677 Net total 1,079,313 Dalley average 85,977 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treaaurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st dav of July. 1908. M. P. WALKER, Notary Public. WHEN OI7T OF TOWJ. baerlbera leaTtosr the city tem porarily ahould bar The Be nailed them. Address will be changed a often aa reqaeated. The deserted offlcei In the city hall need no explanation. Alter having gone half way dry, Lincoln hag gone wet to the limit. For Omaha's sake it is hoped that the Denver air will not affect Mayor Jim In July as it did in February. Talk about portents! Salt creek, which washes the shores of Lincoln and Falrvlew, has overflowed its banks. Ex-Senator Burton of Kansas, whn is out of jail, is also out for Bryau. But then Mr. Bryan cannot help that. It turns out that the democratic steam roller at Denver is likewise a pretty well lubricated piece of ma chinery. It is officially announced that It is Mr. Bryan's tea party at Denver and that no well-behaved guest will do any thing to displease him. The experience of those balloonists who became targets for Vermont farmers suggests the urgent need of a code of aeronautic ethics. When phonograph sermons are the established thing, running the power plant will be added to the list of ex empted Sabbath day labor. King Ak-Sar-Ben goes right along doing business at the old stand with out reference to atmospheric distur bance or political tornadoes. Even a battleship has to go through with the troubles of childhood. The Nebraska could not sail with squadron because of scarlet fever, the Mr. Hearst's paper puts up this motto for Mr. Bryan: "Pike's Peak and Bust." This Is Mr. Hearst's an swer to Mr. Bryan's Invitation to get behind and push. In tbe meantime the races of a number of influential democrats are dally seen on the streets of Omaha That ia to say, they are Influential In all save Mr. Bryan's counsels. A apeclal representative of the Japanese government ia studying Chi cago's sky scrapers. This insult to New Vork'a cloud plercera Justifies an Immediate declaration of war. Judge Parker's denatured resolu tion may be the one that gets Into the record, but the original, which repre sents the judge's true feelings, is the one that will be remembered. Wonder if Dr. Hall's Influence with the Money Devil In Wall street will be aa potent a waa Mayor "Jim's" magical touch? Those 120,000 chunks will come harder this time than they did four years ago. Colonel H. Clay Richmond smoked a cigar while talking with Carrie Na tion, and the smoke actually wreathed around the venerable head of the Kansas besom df destruction. And now the question la, was the colonel showing lis courage or his manners? County Judge Leslie will have to be careful or be will become mighty un popular with the lawyers practicing before htm If be persists la bla lnten tlon to open up court dally at 8 o'clock In the morning. The average lawyer reaenta Interference with his beauty Bleep. ItOfT TT1K1 LOVE THE TlF.fl rT While democrats bidding for vote- in the coming election are loudly proclaiming solicitude for the negro and offering lip sympathy for his wrongs, a discordant note is bound to break out here and there every little while, disclosing the real attitude of the democratic leaders. When we want to know how the democrats love the negro, we do not want to read platform declarations, but to go to the Tillmana and the Vardaman" and other distinguished southerners who repre sent the backbone of the democratic party. An Interview given out by Former Governor Vardanian of Mississippi at St. Louis on his way to Denver, should be an eye-opener for white voters In the north as well aa for every black voter north and south. "I would rather the democratic party went down to defeat forever and be remem bered only for its great work In the past," declares the Mlssissippian, "than that there should be Inserted In the Denver platform one word to catch a negro vote, or that Bryan should be elected by the votes of ven eered savages." As if this were not enough, Governor Vardanian contin ues: The most dangerous thing whlcti can he done, risky both for the democratic party and for the nation, Is currying faVor with the negro vote. This Is a most serloua possibility for the south. The negro Is our rreat prob lem. The new breed of educated negro Is no more to be trusted with government than were blacks of before the war. It was after thirty years of education that crimes against white women began. Prac tically every white man left home In the war, and the faithful negroes, like noble Newfoundland dogs, guarded the house holds and the women and children. Today, should there be a war demand- ng the services of southern men In any number, every adult negro would have to be killed before the whites could dare eave to fight for their country. Every crime against a white woman and here is the cause of my stand in this matter every crime of that character Is an expression of the secret amnmon or every black to become the social and polit ical equal of the white. Now stop and think what false hopes Willi stir In the breast of every negro ni the south, and how It will strike apa thy and resentment in the soul of every white in the south, for the democratic party to declare for political equality for the blacks. Ttie question of permitting the negro to participate in the government of the country, is not a matter of education or property requirements. If every negro In the United States was a university grad uate. I would oppose their voting. The negro graduates would riot be so capable of understanding the principles of demo cratic government as Illiterate whites. This tirade reflects the inner feei ng of the soutnern democrat more than any smoothed-over appeal of Mr. Bryan to negro Intelligence. Governor Vardaman was the candidate of the Bryan following in Mississippi for senator against John Sharp Williams representing the conservatives, and it is not likely that he will be read out of the party by Mr. Bryan. If the democrat of the south could have their way, not a black man would be per mitted to vote under any conditions whatever, whether educated or Illiter ate, and if Governor Vardaman had his way negro children would be de prived of schooling for fear they might secure the education that would entitle them to vote. MAGyAKlMOT'ft AXD MEBC1EVL. The quality of Mr. Bryan's mercy Is not strained It floweth in a stream of size and sweetness sufficient to envelope and convince Colonel "Jim" Guffey aa well as Colonel "Roje" Sul livan, while "Fingy" Connors and Hinky Dink" McKenna may partake of it without restriction. And all the Cleveland democrats and Jeffersonlan democrats and Jacksonian democrata of whatever stripe or shade of politi cal belief may come and lave them selves and assuage their thirst in this wonderful flow. For Mr. Bryan's mercy Is on tap at Denver, and is running over on both sides of the trough. The carefully edited speech of the temporary chairman shows the modu lating effects of the blue pencil that awlngs in the office of the Commoner, and In its softly rounded periods may bo found no trace of any resentment the peerless leader might have har bored against any of the democrats who In days gone by have sought to encompass and bring about his over throw. It la true that Mr. Bryan has caBt his harpoon Into the flesh of Colonel Guffey, and that Colonel Guffey rages In hl Impotent Indigna tion thereat But Colonel Ouffey'a state Is hopelessly republican: while the most charming of charity Is ex tended to Colonel Roger Sullivan, who halls from a state that la fondly believed to be "doubtful" by the Bryanltea. The quality of Colonel Bryan's mercy Is not strained. Nor is Colonel Bryan less magnani mous than merciful. With the control of the convention arrangements In hla own hand, he has shown a forbear ance and a consideration for his ene mies that might in another day have won him a martyr's crown If not a saintly canonlratlon. It was not to be expected that Nebraska would take a back Beat at Denver, and no won derment ia expressed at the location of Mayor "Jim" and his gallant band of Bryanlte satraps directly in the front row, and under the nose of the chairman. But the New Yorkers, who have not as yet uncovered their Intentions, and who might have been sidetracked, are given aeata Just be hind Nebraska, and thue the generosity of the peerless Is made plain to all. It la unfortunate that in carry ing out tbe general scheme for placing his enemies where they could appre ciate the geniality of hla great good nature, it waa Impossible to care for all. Thus it happened that the John- sonltes are located In the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the section that is farthest from the stage, and from whence they will hnve about the same strategic advantage as if they had remained at home. In some similar nnforttiltous way, the Gray men find themselves at the other extremity of the hall. Of course Mr. Bryan couldn't help this; even the most carefully canned conventions have some unpleasant features. And, when Michigan, which happens to be the home of Daniel J. Campau. marched into the convention hall bear ing aloft a banner, the sergeant-at-arms gently but firmly Insisted that the banner be removed, and In lieu of Its being taken from the hall the Michigan men hid their banner on the floor beneath their seats. A mo ment later Nebraska marched In. bearing aloft a banner of red Bilk, on which waa emblazoned the counter felt presentment of William Jennings Bryan. Did the eergeant-at-arms stop this procession? Not that one might notice. He kowtowed as low as his Kentucky proportions would permit, and the banner still waves at the forefront. Verily, Mr. Bryan la coming to exemplify in the fullest the words of the canticle: "His goodness and his mercy endureth forever." SMssasssasswsalaaaaaaaaaaasaiassssssBssasaaaast A NEBRASKA OBJECT LESSOR. Aa illustrating the possibilities that still lie before the wide-awake youth of the country, Collier's Weekly re produces a picture of the log house that J. Sterling Morton built with his own hands when he began life on n Nebraska homestead. It goes on to say: He was a college graduate and the son and grindson of men with Intellectual oc cupetli ns. The young wife who did the cooking In this house had a similar culti vation and ancestry. In this home Morton had the career which ended in a cabinet office, and raised a son who was also a cabinet member. What young couple is so poor today that such a home is be ond them, granted the willingness to work with their hards, and granted that educa tion and city life have not made them ef feminate? Granted the same endowment of character and mind, a career of equal dignity and fulfilment is as possible today. Much so-called social reform Is governed by a spirit which puts the mark of In tolerable burdens upon those conditions which call out initiative and hard work. As we hinted tho other day, most of the city dwellers, whom the reformers seek to mark as objects of pity and governmental solicitude, could cure many of their own Ills by a thirty-mile walk Into the country. A wholesale exodus of the kind would do much to restore the economic balance, rolve the question of the unemployed, and mend most of the troubles about which socialists and philanthropists lie awake. It would insure generations of clean bodies and sound minds, Just as surely aa keeping them in the city, coddling them there, and putting premiums on the absence rather than the presence of Initiative and self reliance, will breed a poor race. It must be gratifying to us that people should look to Nebraska to find such an object lesson. While the progress of fifty years has mitigated in large part the hardships of the pio neers, the door of opportunity Is Btlll open on Nebraska soil for thousands of present and future generations to carve their own fortunes with success equal to that which has attended the first comers. The latent energy to de velop Nebraska resources Is waiting only to be aroused to such opportunity in ignorance that it exists. What is required is to bring the right people to realize what the conditions in tho west are and to point the way out by holding before them such examples of success. The selection of our school board officers for three-year terms ought to be made binding both ways. If the school board guarantees undisturbed tenure for a specified period it ought to be in position to enforce the obliga tion on the part of the beneficiary. An election during the pleasure of the board would be more like a reciprocal agreement, because there Is nothing to hold a superintendent or a secretary for service longer than he wants to stay. After viewing the Fourth of July fatality exhibit for the whole country, Omaha is entitled to congratulate Itself on having come out of the slaughter without a funeral. As a matter of fact, the Fourth In Omaha was one of the most orderly and least riotous within recollection for some of which immunity we have to thank the intelligence and efficiency of the police. Far be It from Colonel Bryan to wish ill to those orientals who bo gen erously entertained bim on bis way around the world. But they will please take notice that the democratic party prefers their room to their com' pany. Western railroads are again threat ening to cut out for good all cut rates in states that enforce 2-cent fare laws. The railroad men must be afraid that they will prove the cut rates to be profitable, and, of course, they would rather lose money than do that. Membere of the Omaha fire depart ment have Just held an enthusiastic anniversary celebration of the Installa tion of the double shift. These re ports that the firemen are themselves dissatisfied with the double shift sys tem must be taken at discount. It may help the colored voter to make up bla mind It he will read that portion of Temporary Chairman Bell'a keynote speech, in which "the white tollers" are specifically mentioned, while a general objurgation la burled at those whose skins are not white. Mr. Hearst'a Examiner chargea Judge Alton B. Parker with playing politics with the dead. No forgiveness there either for Uklog that nomlna- tlon away from Mr. Hearst at St. Louis four years ago. In an authorized autobiography Colonel Guffey boasts that he never held public office and was never a candidate for office. Perhaps that is another reason why Mr. Bryan does not like him. The Cincinnati Enquirer declares editorially, "Chicago Is big. dirty and obtuse " We shnd'der to think of the Jagged epithets that wll soon be hur dling toward Cincinnati in overt retal iation. Inasmuch as Denver is a mile above the sea level the flight of oratory in the democratic convention will natu rally he expected to soar higher than did those in the republican convention. Nature's Motive Power la Action. Cleveland Leader. The way the mills are starting up again It teems likely that some word baa leaked out of the west about the bumper crops. Forecasting rnmlnar Events. Brooklyn Eagle. Nebraska will have a record wheat crop this year. Thus do the stars In their courses again fight against Slsera. There was a fine wheat crop In 1900 and McKinley car ried the state. omethlng l a Ills Sleeve. Chicago iRecord-Herald. Emperor William and President Fal- Here are racing to meet the czar, each being anxious to reach him first. The ciar must have something that Is con sidered worth getting. Pnaa It Around. Baltimore American. Secretary Cortelyou explains that the JflO.OOO.OOO deficit Is not real. If he can p that explanation around there are lots of people who would like to use It In re spect to other obligations. Rivaling; a Resrolar Battle. Chicago Tribune. It I. ..Hm.U that tha nm nf 112000.000 has been spent for Fourth of July firo I'nrVa nrt evnlnalvea this vear. The aver age cost of deaths in celebrating the Fourth probably is about the same as in a regular battle. Specific for Political Eruptions. Pittsburg Dispatch. Mexico and other countries shoot the in surgents who try to overthrow the exist ing government. This avoids the trouble of having those who were allowed to go without penalty bring up their children on tales of how they were trodden under the Iron heel of the remorseless conqueror. Influence of Good Deeds. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The bronze statue of Lafayette paid for by the contributions of American school children has been placed on its pedestal a prominent square In Paris. Since the days of Torktown there have been several berlnda of tension between France and the United States, but the memory of Lafayette went far to preserve the peace. Great Day for Bills. Kansas City Times. If Justice William Jay Gaynor should be nominated for the vice presidency at Den ver, the two men on the ticket would not only have the same initials, but tbe two leading presidential tickets would contain three "Bills." The only presidents named William were the first Harrison and Mc Kinley. The Christian name appearing most frequently In the presidential list is James. It belonged to Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan and Garfield. BRYAST AND Gl'FFEY, Talk A boot Bosses, but What's the I set Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. Bryan contributed largely to the liveliness if not the harmony of democratic politics by making the call of the Penn sylvania delegation of Bryan supporters at his residence the occasion for a free and not at all complimentary expression of opinion concerning that undlscouraged leader and angel for Pennsylvania demo crats. Colonel James M. Guffey. The bur den of his song was to the effect that Guf fey, not being for Bryan, is a boss and representative of the corporation in politics. The elaboration of this view with the detail that Bryan does not Interfere in the policies of the various states enlarges the amusement. It Is not so long ago that It needs to be forgotten when Bryan In structed the Kentucky legislature whom It should elect to the United States senate, which that body urgently proceeded not to do. Also a certain Roger Sullivan of Il linois furnishes an Illustration of that non interference, which subsequently developed Into backdown. But with regard to Guffey he has suc ceeded to the obnoxious position that Sul livan held a year ago. His function In financing state campaigns has been less disagreeable to democratic workers In this state. But that did Bryan no good. Since It proves so highly objectionable to the present proprietor of democracy we Imagine that Colonel Guffey will find little difficulty In promising not to offend In that way this year. POLLY OF FLASHING GOLD. Extraordinary News from the State of the Peerless One, Brooklyn Eagle. A dispatch from Omaha records the mrst extraordinary news from Nebraska since the democratic state platform was sprung upon a startled country. A brakeman on the Northwestern railroad named Itoberts was set upon by tramps, who were at tracted by the gold fillings in his teeth. They knocked him down, pried open his Jaws and, with tne aid of pliers, extracted eight glistening and expensive molars. Roberts, It appears, had tried to put the tramps off the train and, according to the dispatch, his new teeth "shone brightly In the light of his lantern." Itoberts paid dearly for his open coun tenance. The moral of his experience is that you must bo aa wary of displaying your gold-ftlled teeth In the presence of suspicious looking rersons as you would be of showing a roll of $10 bills. In ques tionable society It Is best, therefore, to keep the mouth tightly shut, and If it be necessary to talk at all, to talk through tha nose. Many people talk that way now, so by them this advice may be Ignored as superfluous. It Is a curious commentary upon the teachings of Mr. Bryan that this crime should have been perpetrated In hla own state, which twelve short years ago ap prove! his denunciation of gold. Why this blackslldlng? Why this desperate de termination to possess the accursed metal from which wss made the cross for the crucifixion of mankind? Mr. Bryan's hatred of gold Itself was equaled only by his horror of those who cruelly employed It for their own . base purposes, such as paying house rent, grocery bills and taxes. What will he say now In condemnation of these peripatetic ,and predatory den tists who tore it from the jaws of their howling vi tlm without offering lilm even the solace of a little gas? HOUND ABOUT NEW YORK. tipple on the t orrent of Life In the Metropolis. DeRplte the earnest and continuous ef forts of Z0.0O9 members of the New Thought cult all united in dispensing absent treat ment designed to prevent physical damage en Independence day. New York's score of Fourth of July casualties equaled that of last year, the record on the morning after showing 325 esses, which Included four deaths. One of the leaders of the New Thought explains tho apparent Inefficiency of absent treatment by the fact that "ex plosions disarranged atmospheric vibra tions, preventing thought waves reaching their destination." One decisive thought reached the spot, however, and prevented disaster among the lnndsmen employed by the city to discourse suitable music that day. By order of the authorities national airs only were to he played. Some of the drum majors went to the city ball and In dignantly demanded to know how a two hours" program could he filled out without repetitions. "Surely," said a city function ary, "there must be enough national airs to make up a program?" "So there are," an swered a musician, "but of what kind?" So the order was so interpreted as to In clude "Die Wacht am Rheln." tbe "Mar seillaise," "The Wearing of the Green." "Rule Britannia," and other patriotic tunes. Tbe lnndsmen were saved. "But the other day the Equitable build ing was the pride of the city," says the New York Evening Post. "It was the cost liest, the most Impressive and most modern of skyscrapers. Tourists flocked to It as to the Battery and Trinity church. If any thing was to be permanent. It waa this building, which should forever portray by its masxlveness and, perhaps its ugliness tho solidity of the Equitable society. The actual cost of this building was $18,781,640.22, an astonishingly large sum. to be explained only by undue lavlshneRS. The land Itself cost the company originally 6.4flO,0(io, and at tho Insurance investigation It was admitted that the building was Inadequate for the value of the plot. Gerald R. Brown, the head of the real estate department of the society, testified that the land was alone worth the $13,000,000 at which the building was carried on the books. At that time the gross rental was but $S06.7!H. The per centage on actual cost made by the society was but a trlflo over 2 per cent. Mr. Brown testified also that a new thirty- story building could be built for from $',000,- 000 to $10,000,000." An adequate water supply for New Tork City is ono of the continuing problems of the metropolis. The Catsklll scheme has already called for appropriations of over $60,000,000, and If carried out many times that will be spent before completion. But only last week the water supply board submitted to the Board of Estimate plans for securing a daily supply of 250,000,000 gallons from the underground sources of Long Island at a cost of about $47,000,000. This supply is nearly twice as much as the average f low of Esopus creek. It can be made available in two years, while the Catsklll enterprise, costing many timea as much and delivering a smaller supply, will take ten. What a pity the Long Is land discovery was not made earlier. There Is a great chewing match on at the Brooklyn navy yard. The government is about to let a contract for 100.000 pounds of the "weed." As the Juicy pro duct Is to be consumed by the tars them selves it was considered only fair that they make their selections from the scores of brands offered. After many solemn conferences It was decided that no meager test would suffice. No champion chewer would vouchsafe judgment upon one quid. After a day's chewing he would begin to get a line on the flavor of a particular brand; therefore this Jury, which began Its sessions today, has a long blissful "chaw" ahead. Each chewer tits on a little stool that Is hanked all about with samples of the competitive brands and blends. Fine cut, loose plug, plug cut, twist. North Carolina rope and Connecticut slab are among the first competitive brands. Thirty minutes Is devoted to each quid; thirty silent minutes of cogitative chaw. The government will rely implicitly upon tho Judgment of the Jury selected and after ten days of silent chewing the verdict will be rendered. A reporter of the New York Times went out the other day to test the system of the Charity Organization society having apparently, his doubts about the genuine ness of the profession of the society that sincere and Immediate attention Is al ways paid to every applicant for relief. He dressed himself with elaborately bad clothes, which he carefully soiled by tuch devices as rubbing his shirt and collar and tie against dirt wherever he could find It the buck of the washstand mirror being a chosen source of dirt which shows the condition of his lodging house and looking as bad as he could make himself he tested by a number of lies the honesty of the society. And he found himself, fed, lodged and promised employ ment, Just as the society said would be the case without any unreasonable delay. Ho says In concluding his report: "The test waa complete and the charity organization society had stood it at every point. Three meals and a bed, with prom ise of further help, had been obtained within two hours, without an embarrass ing or searching question being aked by any one and without a lick of work. The treatment throughout was kindly and sympathetic, and a hungry man would have blessed the little woman who gave him the bun left from her own luncheon. The reporter came away fully convinced that any man In the 'bread line' class could have done quite as well as he, and would have been as well treated. And the woman who gave tha bun made an appeal to his manhood, which shows the whole someness of the charity. 'The understand ing is of course, that you are to pay us back, when you are able, what we spend on you for that helps another man and Is also better for you.' Without the slight est suspicion that the reporter was other than the friendless man he represented himself to be, the organization has made good at every point." PKIISONAL NOTES. Mr. Bryan Is in complete and confident control of a steam roller of his own. Two Paris editors fought a duel with swords, the mlghtir pen being too fierce a weapon. The snowbank decorations at Denver are not Intended t recall the snowball diet of twelve years ago. A minor consequence of the Chicago con vention has been a slump In Teddy hears. Their principal manufacturer, Rud Iph Fleischer of New York, says that they have b come white tlephanta. One of the sailors on I'eary's Arctic ship who sorted out the donated books, says: "We are grateful to the people for send ing us all this reading, all right. We have enough to last us five years, but we got ten volumes of 'Omar Khayyam,' and all that guy does is to rave about boose, and we won't be able to git a drink for two years." Hear Admiral Evans, who is spending the summer at Lake Mohonk, submitted to an operation upqn one of hla feet Tues day. 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"Bhe has adopted the directory rtyle, and. you know, her husband canvasses for one." -Philadelphia Press. "Ytur love," be cried, "would give me the strength to lift mountains!" "Dearest!" she murmuied. "It will only be necessury for you to raise the 'dust.' " Illustrated Hits. "John,' said the Colorado woman dele gate to the convention, "I want your ad vice." "8ure," answered her husband, flattered. "Now, as to that labor plank" "Oh, John," she Interrupted, "please be serious. Tell me what hat I shall wear." Philadelphia Ledger. The two sat on the park bench, looking at the moonbeams dancing over the lake. "Just one, Doris!" he pleaded. " 'Sh!" she whispered. "I feel as If some other man were watching us!" Just then the moon accommodatingly went behind a cloud and thn man in It dis appeared. Chicago Tribune. First Dog We're muzzled. Second Dog And not a thing done to the phonographs. New York Sun. "These electric light bills are. driving me positively crazy," said the man who worries. 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